Imagine yourself ninety years ago. You find yourself sailing past one of the loveliest parts of England, an unspoilt valley by the sea in Devon. You decide you have to buy it and have the architect Oswald Milne design your perfect country house.
The house was built so that all the main rooms faced south and once it was complete Milne, who was Sir Edward Lutyens assistant designed the hard landscape.
The stone was quarried on the land and the landscaping even included channeling a stream through a rill, damming to form pools before it returned to its natural state in the lower slopes of the valley.
Stand and enjoy the view,
your own private beach lies below.
and all the while your paradise is being planted with a sheltering belt of Monterey pine and holm oak that will eventually create a micro climate.
One day your paradise will be filled with fragrant and exotic plants, flowers so colourful that everyone will want to see it.
Tomorrow perhaps I’ll show YOU how it turned out.
Lucid Gypsy 
What a gorgeous place
We were there years ago— gorgeous.
Isn’t it? I hope you get to go back 🙂
The gardens must be gorgeous.
They are Colline, even in October!
I’m hooked!
You would love it, maybe add it to your list for next year?
Ummm – sounds like a paradise AND it seems to have lots of those South-facing rooms – plenty of space for friends to come to stay! 🙂
It isn’t a very big house but it is perfect 🙂
Wow! What a place! 🙂
Yes, for those brief years they lived there it must have been an amazing lifestyle 🙂
Agree really a wonderful place – very well captured… 🙂
Thank you, its amazing, more follows!
A fantasy come true! This is intriguing, we have the ends, and the middle, all of which is fabulous, what could possibly come between????
Just a few pretty bits dear 🙂
Wow, I want to go and stay there. It looks so idyllic, and I love the way it’s been built from local stone, so it fits the landscape beautifully. Damn, why don’t I have the money to do this 🙂
When I first went a few years ago you actually could stay there – I couldn’t afford it of course – but it would have been wonderful in the 1930’s rooms 🙂
gosh that is beautiful1 How idyllic. From your descriptions and photos, I feel as though I took a MUCH needed trip to the sea. Thanks, Gilly ~ I really really needed that.
Thanks Kate, always happy to show you around! try the flowers in the next post 🙂
Sounds like Heaven on earth. I would like a piece of that. Thanks, Gilly. I wait for tomorrow.
Oh my! I’d probably never want to leave if I l lived there!
Truly paradise
Very nice design indeed! The house looks elegant, but can e manly enough for me to take. Ahihihi 😀
A wonderful place my friend. Wishing you and your family a blessed Holidays and an amazing New Year!